“We played a good game until their counterattack took away our intensity.”

Beginning the second half, the Spartans (21-7) were certainly intense.

Wyomissing, which won the program’s first state playoff game this spring, took a 2-1 lead by pushing the ball forward aggressively just after halftime.

Courtney Hamsher got the second of her two assists on a nice cross, finding Mould 10 yards from the net, where she finished with a low strike toward the right corner for her second score of the evening.

“It was right in the center and I looked for the corner,” said Mould, a sophomore who had 10 goals during league play. “I took advantage of the center.”

Sweeping in from the sides was the Spartans strategy.

“When we started the game, we wanted to attack on the flanks so they would pull their forwards out of position,” Rada said. “We put our fastest players on the wing and that created goals for us.”

It only took about 10 minutes for the Blazers to regain their bearings. Katie Ruth tied it off the first of two assists from Katelyn Vanderhoff. Kori Wenger then knocked in the game-winner from the top of the box, taking a cross from Ally Brown.

Bethany Engle scored an insurance goal with 11:05 left.

“We kept seeing openings on the outside because they were pushing people forward,” Vanderhoff said. “We knew we would get something from the sides.”

In the first half, the Spartans took a 1-0 lead with 19:20 left on a 17-yarder from Mould.

She was set up when Corbin Weaver crossed from the right side to Hamsher, who was caught between two defenders in front of the net. She passed the ball back to Mould, who was near the top of the box.

Her shot went top shelf, with the ball sailing just over the outstretched hands of Blazers goalkeeper Laura Gochnauer.

Mennonite tied it less than a minute later when Lisa Wingard converted a short pass from Taylor Wenger right in front of the goal.

The Blazers had a great chance to take the lead with 4:30 left in the half when Brown had a point-blank shot stopped by keeper Hayley Zinn.

Despite the loss, Rada was proud of the way his team responded through the season, especially reaching the state final four for the first time.

“This is the first team from Wyomissing to win a state game and we’re proud of what the girls accomplished,” he said. “We played good soccer at the end of the year. You couldn’t ask for more.”